LUMN vs. TWKS, MLNK, AMPL, SCS, MDRX, RILY, STER, KFRC, SEAT, and TTEC
Should you be buying Lumen Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lumen Technologies include Thoughtworks (TWKS), MeridianLink (MLNK), Amplitude (AMPL), Steelcase (SCS), Veradigm (MDRX), B. Riley Financial (RILY), Sterling Check (STER), Kforce (KFRC), Vivid Seats (SEAT), and TTEC (TTEC). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Lumen Technologies (NYSE:LUMN) and Thoughtworks (NASDAQ:TWKS) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Thoughtworks has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lumen Technologies. Thoughtworks is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lumen Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
69.7% of Lumen Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.0% of Thoughtworks shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Lumen Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Thoughtworks shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lumen Technologies has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Thoughtworks has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Thoughtworks has a net margin of -2.88% compared to Lumen Technologies' net margin of -68.74%. Lumen Technologies' return on equity of 8.44% beat Thoughtworks' return on equity.
In the previous week, Lumen Technologies had 6 more articles in the media than Thoughtworks. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Lumen Technologies and 2 mentions for Thoughtworks. Thoughtworks' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Lumen Technologies' score of 0.62 indicating that Thoughtworks is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lumen Technologies received 555 more outperform votes than Thoughtworks when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.81% of users gave Lumen Technologies an outperform vote while only 30.88% of users gave Thoughtworks an outperform vote.
Lumen Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $4.51, indicating a potential upside of 224.14%. Thoughtworks has a consensus price target of $8.44, indicating a potential upside of 107.99%. Given Lumen Technologies' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Lumen Technologies is more favorable than Thoughtworks.
Summary
Lumen Technologies beats Thoughtworks on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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